Gáspár, András. Ezüst félhold BluesTitle trans.:Silver Crescent BluesDivergence: 32 BCEWhat if: An earthquake in the first century BCE opened a strait between Egypt
and the Sinai, linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea and precipitating
centuries worth of minor changes in European and world history.Summary: A man drops crosstime into a different 1980s, one in which the
Industrial Revolution wasn't so rapid and in which the Western European
powers of France and Greater Britain are preparing to finally drive the
Ottomans out of the Balkans. Focus centers on a talisman found in the
secret burial mound in Budapest of the Islamic mahdi who conquered
southeast Europe in the late 1600s.Published: Zrinyi Nyomda Kiadója 1990 (9630281902); Tuan 2007 (97896387271) —
Adapted in comic book form by Mihaly Vass and Ferenc Kiss in 1994.Original in: Hungarian.